School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Community Culture and Mental Health Unit

Further information

Location

This Unit aims to improve the mental health of individuals and communities.

It does this through clinical duties, quality training and advanced research, and the accompanying dissemination of evidence-based health information to consumers, carers and service-providers and decision-makers.

Research areas

Our research aims for a better understanding of mental health from a holistic perspective in:

Psychiatric epidemiology

Cross-cultural psychiatry and Aboriginal mental health

Primary-care Psychiatry and liaison activities with general practice

Mental health service evaluation

Community psychiatry, including remote and rural mental health

Psychopathology of trauma and mental health of migrants and refugees

International mental health, which is supported by committed associations with the World Psychiatric Association, World Health Organization and a range of other international institutions.